How the Mexican Immigration Problem Will Solve Itself
By Robert M. Dunn Jr
June 28, 2007

As the debate over illegal immigration from Mexico rages in Washington and across the country, and as the administration's reform bill hangs by a thread, few Americans are aware that this problem will automatically decline and eventually become a vague memory.

There has been a stunning decline in the fertility rate in Mexico, which means that, in a few years there will not be many teenagers in Mexico looking for work in the United States or anywhere else. If this trend in the fertility rate continues, Mexico will resemble Japan and Italy - rapidly aging populations with too few young workers to support the economy.

How the Mexican Immigration Problem Will Solve Itself
By Robert M. Dunn Jr
June 28, 2007

As the debate over illegal immigration from Mexico rages in Washington and across the country, and as the administration's reform bill hangs by a thread, few Americans are aware that this problem will automatically decline and eventually become a vague memory.

There has been a stunning decline in the fertility rate in Mexico, which means that, in a few years there will not be many teenagers in Mexico looking for work in the United States or anywhere else. If this trend in the fertility rate continues, Mexico will resemble Japan and Italy - rapidly aging populations with too few young workers to support the economy.

How the Mexican Immigration Problem Will Solve Itself
By Robert M. Dunn Jr
June 28, 2007

As the debate over illegal immigration from Mexico rages in Washington and across the country, and as the administration's reform bill hangs by a thread, few Americans are aware that this problem will automatically decline and eventually become a vague memory.

There has been a stunning decline in the fertility rate in Mexico, which means that, in a few years there will not be many teenagers in Mexico looking for work in the United States or anywhere else. If this trend in the fertility rate continues, Mexico will resemble Japan and Italy - rapidly aging populations with too few young workers to support the economy.

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Re: How the Mexican Immigration Problem Will Solve Itself

I have been hearing this for a few years, and it is very strange. Why is the fertility rate dropping in Mexico, like it is in Italy and other First-world nations? It sure seems to be a bucking of the typical Third world trend of never-ending baby booms.